Raymond Huntley
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Horace Raymond Huntley (23 April 1904 – 15 June 1990) was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also appeared in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs as the pragmatic family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon, and other television shows, such as the Wodehouse Playhouse, ('Romance at Droitwich Spa'), in 1975. Born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire (now a suburb of Birmingham) in 1904, Huntley made his stage debut at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 1 April 1922, in A Woman Killed with Kindness. His London debut followed at the Court Theatre on 22 February 1924, in As Far as Thought can Reach. He subsequently inherited the role of Count Dracula from Edmund Blake in Hamilton Deane's touring adaptation of Dracula, which arrived at London's Little Theatre on 14 February 1927, subsequently transferring to the larger Duke of York's Theatre. Later that year he was offered the chance to reprise the role on Broadway (in a script streamlined by John L. Balderston); when he declined, the part was taken by Bela Lugosi instead. Huntley did, however, appear in a US touring production of the Deane/Balderston play, covering the east coast and midwest, from 1928-30. "I have always considered the role of Count Dracula to have been an indiscretion of my youth" he recalled in 1989. After Dracula, he made his Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on 23 February 1931, in The Venetian Glass Nephew. On returning to the UK, his many West End appearances included The Farmer's Wife (Queen's Theatre 1932), Cornelius (Duchess Theatre 1935), Bees on the Boat Deck (Lyric Theatre 1936) Time and the Conways (Duchess Theatre 1937), When We Are Married (St Martin's Theatre 1940), Rebecca (Queen's Theatre 1940; Strand Theatre 1942), They Came to a City (Globe Theatre 1943), The Late Edwina Black (Ambassadors Theatre 1948), And This Was Odd (Criterion Theatre 1951), Double Image (Savoy Theatre 1956), Any Other Business (Westminster Theatre 1958), Caught Napping (Piccadilly Theatre 1959), Difference of Opinion (Garrick Theatre 1963), An Ideal Husband (Garrick Theatre 1966), Getting Married (Strand Theatre 1967), Soldiers (New Theatre 1968) and Separate Tables (Apollo Theatre 1977). He also starred opposite Flora Robson in the Broadway production of Black Chiffon (48th Street Theatre 1950). Often cast as a supercilious bureaucrat or other authority figure, Huntley was also a staple figure in British films, his many appearances including The Way Ahead, I See a Dark Stranger, Passport to Pimlico and The Dam Busters. In his later years, he became well-known on television as Sir Geoffrey Dillon, the family solicitor to the Bellamys in LWT's popular 1970s drama series Upstairs, Downstairs. Huntley died in Westminster Hospital, London in 1990. In his obituary, the New York Times wrote, "During his long career the actor played judges, bank managers, churchmen, bureaucrats and other figures of authority. He could play them straight if necessary, but in comedy his natural dryness of delivery was exaggerated to the point where the character he was playing invited mockery as a pompous humbug." Source: Article "Raymond Huntley" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Credits
Breathless (1960)
as A Journalist (uncredited)
Room at the Top (1958)
as Mr. Hoylake
Night Train to Munich (1940)
as Kampenfeldt
The Mummy (1959)
as Joseph Whemple
Our Man in Havana (1960)
as General
The Dam Busters (1955)
as Official, National Physical Laboratory
Hobson's Choice (1954)
as Nathaniel Beenstock
Hot Millions (1968)
as Bayswater
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960)
as Judge Slender
Only Two Can Play (1962)
as Vernon
So Evil My Love (1948)
as Henry Courtney
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
as Magistrate
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
as Ackroyd
Number Three (1953)
as Prof. Brander
Young Winston (1972)
as Old Officer
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
as Foreign Secretary Tufton-Slade
Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)
as Wright
The House in the Square (1951)
as Mr. Throstle
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
as Mr. Wagstaffe
The Long Dark Hall (1951)
as Chief Inspector Sullivan
That's Your Funeral (1972)
as Emmanuel Holroyd
The Prisoner (1955)
as The General
When We Are Married (1951)
as Councillor Albert Parker
Rotten to the Core (1965)
as Governor
Doctor at Sea (1955)
as Captain Beamish
A Voyage Round My Father (1984)
as Judge
Destiny of a Spy (1969)
as Supt. Pode
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)
as Dr. Kerbishley
Make Mine Mink (1960)
as Inspector Pape
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
as Sir Horace, the Minister
When We Are Married (1943)
as Albert Parker
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948)
as Moy-Thompson
The Last Man to Hang (1956)
as Attorney General
The Constant Husband (1955)
as J.F. Hassett
Next to No Time (1958)
as Forbes, Factory Supervisor
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
as J. Miller
Aunt Clara (1954)
as Rev. Maurice Hilton
The Day Will Dawn (1942)
Actor
Sands of the Desert (1960)
as Bossom
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
as Mr. Wix
Knight Without Armour (1937)
as White Officer
Sleepwalker (1984)
as Old Englishman
Innocent Meeting (1959)
as Harold Phillips
Dinner at the Ritz (1937)
as Gibout
The Green Man (1956)
as Sir Gregory Upshott
On the Beat (1962)
as Sir Ronald Ackroyd
Let's Be Famous (1939)
as Singer in trio (uncredited)
School for Secrets (1946)
as Prof. Laxton-Jones
"Pimpernel" Smith (1941)
as Marx
They Came to a City (1944)
as Malcolm Stritton
The Way Ahead (1944)
as Pvt. Herbert Davenport
A French Mistress (1960)
as Reverend Edwin Peake
Arthur? Arthur! (1969)
as George Payne
Symptoms (1974)
as Burke
Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
as Patterson
Can You Hear Me, Mother? (1935)
as Dolan
Nurse on Wheels (1963)
as Vicar Walcott
The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)
as Mr Humphries
Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife (1936)
as Langer
Hostile Witness (1968)
as John Naylor
Brothers in Law (1957)
as Tatlock Q.C.
The Black Torment (1964)
as Colonel John Wentworth
Rembrandt (1936)
as Ludwick
The Yellow Teddy Bears (1963)
as Harry Haliburton
The Last Page (1952)
as Clive Oliver
It's Hard to be Good (1948)
as Williams
Trio (1950)
as Mr. Henry Chester
Freedom Radio (1941)
as Rabenau
When We Are Married (1938)
as Councillor Albert Parker
Orders Are Orders (1954)
as Col. Fred Bellamy
Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle (1961)
as Mr. Gaunt
The Ghost Train (1941)
as John Price
Father Came Too! (1964)
as Mr. Wedgewood
Suspect (1960)
as Sir George Gatting the Minister of Defense
Laxdale Hall (1953)
as Samuel Pettigrew, M.P.
The Adding Machine (1969)
as Smithers
Geordie (1955)
as Olympic Selector
The Portland Millions (1976)
as Dr. Tristram
The New Lot (1943)
as Barrington
Town on Trial (1957)
as Dr. Reese
Broken Journey (1948)
as Edward Marshall
Bottoms Up! (1960)
as Garrick-Jones
The Criminals (1958)
as Hector Crawford
The Teckman Mystery (1954)
as Maurice Miller
What Happened Then? (1934)
Actor
London Melody (1937)
as Policeman Outside Nightclub
Follow That Horse! (1960)
Actor
Glad Tidings (1953)
as Tom Forester